Functional Geekery Episode 139 - Laura M. Castro

In this episode I talk with Laura M. Castro. We talk her introduction to Erlang, Final Project and Ph.D. around Erlang, Research and Teaching using Erlang and Elixir, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Code Beam Lite, Erlang Workshops and more.

Our Guest, Laura M. Castro.

@lauramcastro on Twitter
lauramcastro on Github
https://lauramcastro.github.io/

Announcements

ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/.

:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal.

Code BEAM Lite A Coruña is taking place in A Coruña, Spain on the 11th of June. Visit https://www.codebeamcorunha.es to register, or to find out more.

Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date.

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If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@2:51]

About Laura
Universidade da Coruña
Erlang during University
OCaml
Java
C
Prolog
OCaml being completely different, even in second year of University
Contact with computers as typewriters
Basic
Studying Computer Engineering as good profession career track
Course on Functional Programming in 4th year
First Exposure to Erlang
“I was a Lego Kid”
“It will do the things I tell it to do”
End of Degree Project
Writing a Risk Management system in Erlang
Modeling policies as processes
Pattern Matching
Doing Research in the Computer Engineering world
Ph.D. on what Functional Programming helped put on the table
Dialyzer
Seeing what it would be like to work in academia and the research world
Delphi
“What did functional programming bring to the table?”
State in Processes
Pattern Matching
Recursions
“[…] they seem straight forward 20 years later”
Matthew Flatt – A Racket Perspective on Research, Education, and Production
Keeping research close to industry
Teaching Erlang in her Software Architecture course
“They’ve never seen really distributed architectures”
Automatic Validation and Testing
“You specify what you want to test”
Proper
Designing for Scalability with Erlang and OTP
WhatsApp
Suffering from the Secrecy of Using Erlang
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Overview of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Education Working Group
OTP Behaviors
Ecto
University of Kent Erlang Master Classes; Class 1; Class 2; Class 3
exercism
Erlang Camp
Erlang and OTP in Action
Code BEAM Lite A Coruña
Code BEAM Twitter Account
Code BEAM A Coruña Twitter Account
Sponsorships for Code BEAM Lite
Erlang Workshops
Brujo Benavides
Erlang Workshop with Laura and Brujo
Hank
Rebar 3
Property Based Testing Training Workshop coming soon
Telegram

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.